Advancement Via Individual Determination

Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is a program desired to help underachiving students with high academic potential prepared for entrance to college. Avid coordinators and site teams select students for the program. "Approximately 10,000 students have graduated from the AVID program."Avid is the key to be prepared for any post secondary opportunities.

Avid focuses on students with averages of B,C and sometimes D's. These are students that want to go to college and are willing to work toward that goal.These are students who are capable of working hard, but are not using their full potential. Normally, they are the first in the families to attend college, and many come from families of origin minority or low-income. AVID pulls these students in classes where they are not challenged and puts them in the "College Track".

Students learn organizational skills and study over a period day. They work on developing their critical thinking, make intelligent questions, get academic help for college tutors, and participate in development activities and motivation to make it look like to attend college possible. Improve their self-esteem and image, and leaders become successful in academics and role models for other students Professional Development The AVID elective is taught by a teachers who has been trained in the process of the program.

AVID professional development goes beyond that. Teachers and administrators around the school and the district attend the AVID Summer Institutes, where they learn the techniques to make the best of average students. In this way, AVID students are supported in the classroom and in the AVID elective, and students are benefited by the program . AVID is used in nearly 2,700 middle and high schools in 39 states and 15 other countries. Great schools in urban areas, small schools in the country, schools with many resources and schools without resources, all found the AVID program meets the needs of average students. Results A well-developed AVID program improves outcome of state standardized tests, advanced materials, and the number of students entering college. Since 1990 nearly 40,000 AVID students have graduated from high school and attended university. 77.1% 4-year institutions and community colleges 17.2%. The national average for high school graduates who enter a 4-year college is 35%.

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